Catalogues Raisonnés

• MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995 (cat. no. 1291) as 'The Shell'.

Catalogues 1855-1905

• A Collection of Paintings representing The Glasgow School, Artists of Denmark and Some Others, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1895 (cat. no. 164) as 'The Shell'.
• International Exhibition, Glasgow Art Galleries, Glasgow, 1901 (cat. no. 1074) as 'The Shell'.
• Œuvres de James McNeill Whistler, Palais de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1905 (cat. no. 148) as 'The Shell'.

Journals 1855-1905

• Monroe, Lucy, 'Chicago Letter' (25 November 1895), The Critic, New York, no. 719, 30 November 1895, pp. 374-75 at p. 374.

Catalogues 1906-Present

• Curry, David Park, James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art, New York and London, 1984, p. 275, pl. 277.

Websites

• Freer Gallery of Art website at https://asia.si.edu/object/F1905.63a-c, as 'The Shell'.